John Steinbeck: The Contemporary Reviews

by Edited by Joseph R. McElrath, Jr , Jesse S. Crisler , Susan Shillinglaw

• ISBN13: 9780521114097
• ISBN10: 0521114098
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume is the first to collect the critical responses of Steinbeck's generation to his many fiction and non-fiction works, as they appeared from the late 1920s onwards. The articles trace the record of Steinbeck's progress through the 1930s and go on to reflect Steinbeck's steady series of achievements through the 1960s, including his attainment of the Nobel Prize in 1967. These articles offer a means of seeing Steinbeck's writings as they were perceived by his contemporaries, whose task it was first to evaluate and interpret them for an ever-growing readership.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Cup of Gold

The Pastures of Heaven

To A God Unknown

Tortilla Flat

In Dubious Battle

Of Mice and Men (the novel)

The Red Pony

Of Mice and Men (the play)

The Long Valley

The Grapes of Wrath

The Forgotten Village

Sea of Cortez

The Moon is Down (the novel)

The Moon is Down (the play)

Bombs Away

Cannery Row

The Wayward Bus

The Pearl

A Russian Journal

Burning Bright (the novel)

Burning Bright (the play)

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

East of Eden

Sweet Thursday

The Short Reign of Pippin IV

Once There Was a War

The Winter of our Discontent

Travels with Charley in Search of America

America and Americans

Journal of a novel: The East of Eden Letters

The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights

Working Days

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